"About box" meaning in All languages combined

See About box on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: About boxes [plural]
Etymology: So called because traditionally accessed through a menu item labelled Help > About this program or similar. Head templates: {{en-noun|head=About box}} About box (plural About boxes)
  1. (computing) A window displaying information about an application, such as its version number and copyright or other licence. Categories (topical): Computing Translations (a window displaying information about an application): névjegy (Hungarian), névjegy ablak (Hungarian)

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_text": "So called because traditionally accessed through a menu item labelled Help > About this program or similar.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "About boxes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "head": "About box"
      },
      "expansion": "About box (plural About boxes)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Entries with translation boxes",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Hungarian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Computing",
          "orig": "en:Computing",
          "parents": [
            "Technology",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A window displaying information about an application, such as its version number and copyright or other licence."
      ],
      "id": "en-About_box-en-noun-V6cWjXAp",
      "links": [
        [
          "computing",
          "computing#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "window",
          "window"
        ],
        [
          "information",
          "information"
        ],
        [
          "application",
          "application"
        ],
        [
          "version number",
          "version number"
        ],
        [
          "copyright",
          "copyright"
        ],
        [
          "licence",
          "licence"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(computing) A window displaying information about an application, such as its version number and copyright or other licence."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "computing",
        "engineering",
        "mathematics",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "sciences"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "a window displaying information about an application",
          "word": "névjegy"
        },
        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "a window displaying information about an application",
          "word": "névjegy ablak"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "About box"
}
{
  "etymology_text": "So called because traditionally accessed through a menu item labelled Help > About this program or similar.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "About boxes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "head": "About box"
      },
      "expansion": "About box (plural About boxes)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "Entries with translation boxes",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Terms with Hungarian translations",
        "en:Computing"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A window displaying information about an application, such as its version number and copyright or other licence."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "computing",
          "computing#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "window",
          "window"
        ],
        [
          "information",
          "information"
        ],
        [
          "application",
          "application"
        ],
        [
          "version number",
          "version number"
        ],
        [
          "copyright",
          "copyright"
        ],
        [
          "licence",
          "licence"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(computing) A window displaying information about an application, such as its version number and copyright or other licence."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "computing",
        "engineering",
        "mathematics",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "a window displaying information about an application",
      "word": "névjegy"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "a window displaying information about an application",
      "word": "névjegy ablak"
    }
  ],
  "word": "About box"
}

Download raw JSONL data for About box meaning in All languages combined (1.5kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-15 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (8a39820 and 4401a4c). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.